midst of the cuban missile crisis and recorded this account of the debate among his top advisers on the u.s. course of action. >> secretary mcnamara, general >> it's the 50th anniversary of the cuban missile crisis, this weekend on american history tv. the historian, scholars, film makers and journalists, flight sunday from the jfk presidential library and museum on c-span3. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our primetime lineup for tonight. >> the year was 1981, or 1982, and i was living in hong kong where i was working for the asian "wall street journal." i was the op-ed editor, and one day a submission crossed my desk. it was written by an italian journalist who was living in what we then called peking. he had secured a very rare visa to go to pyongyang and had written an article for his publication about it and sent a translation to me hoping the asian "wall street journal" would publish it. of course, we did. and i was, i was really blown away by. it was completely eye-opening to me, especially his description of the mass public worship of kim il-sung who was then the leader